everyone. This meeting will come to order. Welcome to the February 9, 2026 regular meeting of the

Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. I'm Supervisor

Marina Melgar, Chair of the Committee, joined by Vice Chair Cheyenne Chen and Supervisor Bilal

Mahmood. The committee clerk today is Mr. John Carroll, and I would also like to thank the folks

at SFCUP TV for staffing us in this meeting today. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements? Yes,

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Please ensure that you've silenced your cell phones and other electronic devices you've brought with you into the chamber today.

If you have any documents to be included as part of today's files, you can submit them directly to me.

Public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda.

When your item of interest comes up and public comment is called for that agenda item, please line up to speak along your right-hand side of this room.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways.

First, you may email your comments to me at john.carroll at sfgov.org,

or you may send your written comments via U.S. Postal Service to our office in City Hall.

The address is 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, room 244, San Francisco, California, 94102.

If you submit public comment and writing, I will forward your comment to the members of this committee

and also include your comment as part of the official file on which you are commenting.

items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of February 24th

2026 unless otherwise stated thank you mr. clerk please call item number one agenda item number one

is an ordinance amending the planning code to authorize movie theaters that also operate as

bona fide eating places to offer entertainment cultural artistic dramatic musical or leisure

activities performances or exhibitions and permit on-site wine beer and or liquor to make

conforming changes in the planning code definitions of bar and bona fide eating places

permitting certain movie theaters in the upper Fillmore neighborhood commercial district to sell

wine and or beer without being subject to non-residential use size limits otherwise

applicable within the district the ordinance affirms the planning department's determination

under CEQA and makes findings of consistency with the general plan and the priority policies of

Planning Code Section 101, and findings of conformity with Planning Code Section 302.

This item is on our agenda as a potential committee report,

and it may be sent to the Board of Supervisors for consideration tomorrow, February 10, 2026.

Thank you so much, Mr. Clerk.

Colleagues, you may remember that we continued this item two weeks ago because it had substantive amendments.

So I don't see – we do have Mr. Rosas, Lorenzo Rosas here to answer any questions.

but I don't see anyone on the roster.

So that being said, Mr. Clerk, let's go to public comment on this item.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Land use and transportation will now hear public comment related to agenda item number one,

alcohol sales in movie theaters.

If you have public comment for this agenda item, please come forward to the lectern,

and I will start your time.

Hello. Thank you, Chair Melgor and members of the committee.

My name is Cody Allen, and I'm the executive director of the Upper Fillmore Revitalization Project.

We are the project sponsor for the rehabilitation and reactivation of the historic Clay Theater.

The Clay Theater is the cultural cornerstone of the neighborhood that we are working in

and raising our families in.

And I want to take the time to thank Supervisor Cheryl's office and the supervisor himself

for putting forward this ordinance, which will drastically enhance the viability of not only

the Clay Theater but also neighborhood theaters across the city, making this a space where

the community can enjoy refreshments, wine, beer, and community in the lobby on an extended hour

basis, well beyond what they might be able to get in a normal movie theater setting, committing two

and a half hours of their day. This is really, as I said, the cornerstone of our entire undertaking

in the Upper Fillmore, where we are committed to bringing small businesses to the vacancies that we

have on our street. I'm going to be joined today, just after me, by Ted Grecchi, the director and

operator of the Clay Theater, who you'll hear a bit more from. But thank you again for your

consideration and for your time today. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please.

Hello. My name is Ted Gerke. I want to thank Chairman Melgar and the committee for your time

and consideration. As Cody Allen mentioned, I am the director and feature operator of the Clay

Theater on Fillmore Street. I would like to also express my gratitude to the Upper Fillmore

Revitalization Project for truly revitalizing this historic asset and to Supervisor Cheryl

for introducing this ordinance. The legislation put forward today will make the clay and theaters

like it more viable businesses for decades to come. You may have heard that the sky is falling

for independent theaters. I'm here to tell you that that is not the case. In my decade of experience,

I can tell you that people seek community now more than ever. They want to be entertained,

educated, and brought together with their friends and neighbors. That isn't to say that conditions

aren't challenging. To survive well into the 21st century, spaces like the clay must adapt to the

times. With industry consolidation and shortened theatrical windows, we need as independent

cinemas to be community hubs. The clay will present 500 screenings a year along with a

diverse slate of conversations and performances. But no matter what films we book or what talent

we bring to San Francisco, if the clay is going to be a cultural and economic engine for the

neighborhood, it has to be more than just a theater. It must be a third place, one where

people want to meet, if only to stop in for a soft drink or a glass of wine while reviewing our

upcoming calendar. This legislation makes it possible for the clay to open its doors to the

community with reliable hours, seven days a week, and invites entrepreneurs across the city to

imagine renewed lives for historic neighborhood cinemas while keeping them cinemas.

Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Do we have anyone else who has public

comment for agenda item number one? Madam Chair. Okay, public comment on this item

is now closed. Supervisor Mahmoud. Thank you chair. I'd like to make a motion to

vote this item to the full board with a positive recommendation as a committee

report. On the motion offered by Member Mahmoud that this ordinance be

recommended as a committee report. Vice Chair Chen. Chen aye. Member Mahmoud

aye. Chair Malgar. Aye. Malgar aye. Madam Chair there are three ayes. Okay that motion

passes. Thank you. Okay let's go to item number two please Mr. Clerk. Agenda item

number two is a resolution adding the commemorative street named Tianfu Wu

Wei on Joy Street between Clay and Sacramento in recognition of Tianfu Wu's contributions to the

women's rights and anti-trafficking movements in San Francisco's Chinatown. Thank you so much.

We welcome Supervisor Sauter representing District 3. Welcome. Thank you, Chair. Thank you for having

me and colleagues. I hope we'll have your support on this item. This is the first commemorative

street name designation that our office has worked on and I'm really proud that it's for

for an individual that is so remarkable and frankly heroic as Tian Fu Wu.

Some of you may know a little bit about the incredible organization and institution that Cameron House is,

a remarkable history, but also does incredible modern-day work, particularly with our youth and children.

and many people know because of the naming of Cameron House many people know of Donald

Dinyu Cameron but Tianfu Wu also played an incredible part in Cameron House's work

and I spoke at length at Roll Call a few weeks ago about her biography but you know she is

someone who more people should know about and I think that's what these street designations do

They kind of give everyone a reason to pause and look up and wonder and do more research.

In my own pursuit of research, I've been reading The White Devil's Daughter,

which is a book about Chinatown at the time and about Donald D. New Cameron.

And they introduced Tian Fu Wu, who became a partner and a friend along the way

in saving literally hundreds of women and young girls from the slavery of the time.

And the two of them, they didn't get along at first.

In fact, I was just reading this weekend about one of the early times that they butted heads

where Tianfu Wu actually went back to her room and threatened to open the window

so that she could catch pneumonia and come back as a ghost to haunt Donald Dean and Cameron.

Thankfully, that didn't happen. They ended up working together for many decades and eventually became friends.

And today they're actually buried at the same burial spot in Palo Alto.

So anyways, kind of a story I wanted to share.

And again, just a reminder of what these designations are all about, honoring people and giving all of us a reason to examine the history that is all around us.

Thank you.

Thank you. Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, Chair Melga. I am also very pleased to support this commemorative, street name, destination in honor of Ten Fu Wu.

There are too many unsung heroes and heroes of the women's rights and anti-trafficking movements.

San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America.

Restrictive immigration policies, public corruptions, and institutionalized racism and sexism

make many of our neighborhoods working class and limited English proficiency residents vulnerable to exploitations.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Tan Fu Wu worked to rescue hundreds of Asian women and girls from sex and human trafficking.

Today, sex and human trafficking continue to afflict our world.

and the courageous effort of those who spoke up

and continue to speak up and speak out against this injustice

is just as important for now as it was when

Ten Fu Wu spoke up. To honor Ten Fu Wu on

Joyce trees to restore memory and give

visibility to the courageous warrior. I'm so happy to

support this effort. Thank you. Thank you so much, Supervisor.

thank you for doing this

and it's really great

I would like to be added as a co-sponsor

and let's go to public comment on this item please

thank you madam chair

land use and transportation will now hear public comment

related to agenda item number two

proposing a commemorative street name designation

for Joy Street to Tan Fu Wu Wei

if you have public comment for this item

please line up to speak along that wall

and you may begin

hi good afternoon

my name is Leanne Ma

and I'm here on behalf of Donald Dina Cameron House

in strong support of the proposal

to add a commemorative name to Joy Street

as Tianfu Wu Wei.

Cameron House would like to personally thank

Supervisor Danny Sauter and his team

and their leadership in bringing this resolution forward

and for recognizing the importance

of honoring the legacy of Tianfu Wu

and the Chinese woman who shaped this community.

And especially nearing Lunar New Year,

when our communities are reflecting on heritage and legacy,

this recognition feels particularly meaningful. There is something powerful about how we as stewards

of this land choose to name the streets we walk on. It matters when we name streets after the

children who once played on them and the people who shaped these blocks with their lives. The

younger women who were rescued and supported through Donald Dina Cameron House often spent time

playing on Joy Street and in the surrounding area. It was a place where they could breathe,

belong, and briefly reclaim childhood. And historical accounts describe how these girls

which share Chinese folk tales, stories of spirits, courage, loss, and hope.

And they played out these stories together, holding both darkness and light

and carrying their culture forward through imagination and community.

They were ways of surviving, making meaning, and remembering who they were.

So when we choose to commemorate the street, we are honoring not only one individual,

but a deeper legacy, the leadership of Chinese women and girls who endured,

rebuilt, and cared for one another.

These tributes become messages to our children today,

reminders that leadership is not only achievement but responsibility

and that community care is a civic value worth naming and remembering.

Donald Dina Cameron is rightfully honored as a San Francisco icon,

but I believe she herself would want the spotlight turned toward the many Chinese women

who took up the mantle of community care and activism alongside and after her.

Tianfu Wu Wei allows the physical landscape surrounding Cameron House

to reflect the full story of its history

and ensures that the legacy of Chinese women,

whose care and activism made this work possible,

is visibly honored for future generations.

Thank you.

Do we have anyone else who has public comment

for agenda item number two?

Madam Chair.

Thank you so much.

Public comment on this item is now closed.

Supervisor Chen, would you like to make a motion?

Yes.

Thank you, Chair Melgar.

I would like to make a motion to move this item number two

to the full board with positive recommendation.

On the motion offered by Vice Chair Chen

that this resolution be recommended

to the Board of Supervisors.

Vice Chair Chen.

Aye.

Chen, aye.

Member Mahmood.

Mahmood, aye.

Chair Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, aye.

Madam Chair, there are three ayes.

Thank you so much.

That motion passes.

Mr. Clerk, please call item three and four together.

Agenda item number three is a resolution declaring the intention of the Board of Supervisors to order the vacation of the designation of portions of Christmas Tree Point Road and the eastern alignment of Twin Peaks Boulevard as public right-of-way for roadway and sidewalk purposes, and to order the redesignation of eastern Twin Peaks Boulevard as public right-of-way for recreation and park purposes to facilitate the development of the Twin Peaks Promenade Project and setting a hearing date for the Board of Supervisors to sit as a committee of the whole for all persons interested in the public.

in the proposed vacation of the said street areas.

Agenda item number three is on our agenda as a potential committee report.

It may be sent to the Board of Supervisors for consideration tomorrow, February 10th, 2026.

Agenda item number four is an ordinance ordering the conditional vacation

of the designated areas identified in agenda item number three.

It also approves the interdepartmental transfer of Eastern Twin Peaks Boulevard

and assessor's parcel block number 2643, lot number 041 from public works

to the Recreation and Park Department, notwithstanding Administrative Code Chapter 23.

Third, it also applies the park code and regulations and the excavation and backfill requirements

of the Public Works Code and associated orders, regulations, standards, and procedures to

Eastern Twin Peaks Boulevard, enabling the Recreation and Park Department to issue excavation

permits for Eastern Twin Peaks Boulevard.

It also clarifies that the city has approved a grant restriction requiring that the Twin

peaks promenade be operated as public open space and perpetuity it also

authorizes official acts in connection with the ordinance as defined within its

and makes appropriate findings as regard to CEQA and the general planning

priority policies planning code section 101.1 thank you so much we are joined by

Chris towns from the rec parks department who would make a presentation welcome

thank you so much thank you clerk of the board and if I have a PowerPoint if I

could get that loaded on the screen please thank you good afternoon board

members my name is Chris towns I'm a planner with the San Francisco

Recreation and Park Department and I'll be presenting the Twin Peaks promenade

street vacation and interdepartmental property transfer item before you today

I'll preface by mentioning that the street vacation item before you is

associated with the Twin Peaks promenade project and broader site improvements

whose various grant acceptances were previously approved by the board,

including multiple state grants totaling about $4.25 million.

Therefore, the board's approval of this item would be a continuum of past-related approvals

and allowed the Twin Peaks Promenade Project to proceed into construction,

utilizing already approved funding.

So with that, I'll open with the Twin Peaks Open Space Overview.

Twin Peaks itself is a 31-acre Rec and Park Department open space in the Twin Peaks neighborhood,

featuring two distinct peaks surrounded by landscaped hillside expanses. Twin Peaks is

one of San Francisco's most iconic open spaces as a unique geographic feature within the middle of

the city. It's an internationally recognized tourist attraction, and it offers panoramic

views of the city and surrounding bay area due to its high elevation. Twin Peaks is also

a natural area per Rec Park's Natural Resource Area Management Plan due to its importance

and significance as a natural hillside habitat. For a brief overview of the various phases

of work that have already taken place at Twin Peaks over the past over decade, I'd just

like to highlight that from 2013 to 2014, a new multi-use trail adjacent to Southern

Twin Peaks Boulevard was established.

In 2015, there was an addition of three crosswalks towards the upper, middle, and lower sections

of Twin Peaks Boulevard.

In 2016 through 2020, the Figure 8 redesign planning study was conducted by SFMTA to study

the vehicular road closure to allow pedestrian and bicyclist use of the eastern half of the roadway,

which led to permanent closure of the eastern alignment in 2020.

In 2017, the Twin Peaks Trails Improvement Project Phase I for two trail segments was conducted and completed.

In 2025, Phase II for three additional trail segments was completed.

and at this time the rec park department is pursuing the street vacation to facilitate the

twin peaks promenade project which would implement comprehensive surface improvements

to transform the decommissioned eastern alignment into a linear park or promenade as we're calling

it with construction slated to begin in summer of 2026 and be completed by early 2027.

The requested street vacation, as depicted in dark green on the map shown, occupies the

eastern half of the figure eight and would facilitate the project in that it occupies

the project footprint.

The requested street vacation is simply the legislative means by which the existing decommissioned

roadway, a public right-of-way under public works jurisdiction currently, would be jurisdictionally

transferred from Public Works to Rec Park.

And instead of being a public right-of-way for roadway

and street purposes, it would become a public right-of-way

for recreation and open space purposes.

This would allow Rec Park to manage and maintain

the open space as a recreational open space

while retaining the public right-of-way designation

to accommodate an existing franchise agreement.

The street vacation is the required premise of the project,

simply because it needs to be under RPD jurisdiction.

in order for us to commence construction.

A supplemental aspect of this legislation

includes the interdepartmental transfer of block 2643014

from Public Works to Rec Park, as designated

on the jurisdictional map shown.

You'll notice the yellow highlighted parcel that

sort of parallels the street vacation footprint

along the eastern hillside.

is surrounded by a cluster of other properties already

under RPD jurisdiction.

The benefits of this transfer include

the consolidation of RPD land, maintenance efficiencies,

as well as increasing the amount of open space preserved

as open space under the jurisdiction of Rec Park.

The Rec Park Commission previously

recommended that the board approve

the interdepartmental transfer of the promenade

and this parcel.

So the board's approval of this item

would bring closure to this transaction.

And lastly, the transfer is also supported

by the Public Works Department, as indicated

in your Public Works order in your packet.

For shared visual reference, I just

want to close with some imagery of the proposed Twin Peaks

Promenade project that this vacation would facilitate.

As you can see, the design is relatively simple

and meant to sort of complement the natural hillside

landscape with a sort of central asphalt paved section and an outer aggregate

paving flanked by natural native landscaping. That concludes my

presentation and staff is available for any questions. Thank you. Thank you so

much for the presentation. Yes. Are you done? Yeah. Okay thank you. So colleagues

This is in District 7. Twin Peaks is one of the second most visited tourist sites in San Francisco. Everybody knows that this is who you take your relatives to so that you can see a view of the entire city.

during the pandemic. We changed the traffic patterns up there. There was an increase in crime.

We worked very closely with SFPD and with the surrounding community of Midtown Terrace

to sort of triage what was going on. We have for years been engaged with the community

to try to figure out how to improve not just the physical appearance, but also the sort of flow

of traffic and people up on that hill. And, you know, one of the things that we have come up

against consistently is that different city departments own different pieces of this little

small space. It's Rec Park, MTA, DPW, PUC even, IT. And so to try to come up with a unified plan

to make it beautiful, serviceable, and orderly has been a little bit of a challenge. And yet

the surrounding neighbors who use this space very well have been, you know, supportive to try to just

make the situation better. We're not quite there yet, but I am really grateful to the recreation

and Parks Department for always showing up and writing those grant proposals and, you know,

doing the progressive improvements that we all want to see. Even if we're not quite there yet,

on the whole, you know, we keep making small progress on improvements, and I am very appreciative

of this. So I will be co-sponsoring these items. I want to say that when the time comes to make a

motion I will be making a motion to send out item number four without

recommendation that's not indicative of any support that's just how these things

are done because it'll come to a full board and we'll do a committee of the

whole so with that let's go to public comment on this item please mr. clerk

thank you madam chair land use and transportation will now hear public

comment related to agenda item numbers three and four proposing a street

vacation for portions of Christmas tree point Christmas tree point Road in Twin

Peaks Boulevard. If you have public comment for these two items, please come forward to the lectern,

and I'll begin your time. Welcome, Mr. Wooding. Good afternoon. Thank you,

commissioners. My name is George Wooding. I am the president of Midtown Terrace.

Most people don't understand that the land here is part of Midtown Terrace and has always been

part of Midtown Terrace. Midtown Terrace has not been reached out by any agency except the SFMTA

did write that they had a report or a meeting with us and wrote that up and sent that into the city.

They never talked to us. No one has talked to us.

And it's caused numerous traffic problems, traffic studies.

People are now trying to get to Clarendon School by using Panorama Boulevard.

Myrna's right. There was a tremendous increase

in squatting, in car theft,

in all kinds of burglary.

And none of it was brought on by the neighborhoods.

Nobody talked to us. We found out the Skateboard Association

was a stakeholder.

So that being said, we were anointed stakeholders.

And then guess what?

Nobody talks to us about what's happening.

And I hate to see this traffic, less parking,

more traffic, more congestion.

So I would like to ask for a continuance today until somebody from the city actually reaches out to Midtown Terrace and talks with us.

Thank you.

Do we have anyone else who has public comment for agenda item numbers 3 and 4 called together?

Madam Chair.

Thank you so much.

Ms. Bradley, can you please address that last comment?

Yes.

Yes, thank you, Supervisor Chairwoman Melgar.

Thank you for your comments, Mr. Whitting.

This piece of the road network is the figure three.

I think perhaps you might be talking about the area of Twin Peaks Boulevard

that connects to Burnett Avenue.

Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Stacey Bradley. I'm the Director of Capital and Planning at the Reckon Park Department.

So we started this effort to close the Figure 3 in 2015 with MTA.

It has gone through multiple community outreach and engagement.

We've been working on closing this road and making these improvements along the promenade for almost a decade.

Well, actually, for a decade.

over a decade, and we've had multiple interactions with the community. So I think

there's just multiple things going on in the area, and this was closed by the MTA board

a few years ago, and this piece, doing the street vacation, is solely to allow us to

keep it in perpetuity as an open space in alignment with the federal grants that we have.

Thank you so much, Ms. Bradley.

And I would just encourage the department to keep an open communication with the Midtown Terrace neighbors.

Absolutely.

Because I know things take decades sometimes for our city.

And, you know, like we have to just keep reminding people, no, this was, you know.

So just thank you so much.

I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Okay.

With that, public comment is now closed.

I would like to now make a motion to send item number three file number 251218 the resolution

of intent street vacation portions of Christmas tree point road in Twin Peaks Boulevard Twin Peaks

Promenade project to the full board with a positive recommendation as committee report

as amended. It presently has a blank, Madam Chair, that has the date for the proposed

Committee of the Whole hearing date. We request that that date be amended into the resolution

so that we can schedule the Committee of the Whole and perform the adequate noticing.

Okay, I apologize. So that date would be March 17, 2026.

Okay, then as amended with that date. So you'd like to move first that the resolution be amended

to include the March 17, 2026 committee of the whole hearing date and then recommend

agenda item number three as a committee report as amended.

Correct.

Thank you.

On those two motions, Vice Chair Chen.

Chen, aye.

Member Mahmood.

Mahmood, aye.

Chair Malgar.

Aye.

Malgar, aye.

Madam Chair, there are three ayes on those two motions.

Okay.

That motion passes.

now I will make a motion to send item number four, file number 251220,

Street Vacation Order, Interdepartmental Property Transfer, Twin Peaks Promenade Project,

to the full board meeting on Tuesday, February 24th, 2026, without recommendation.

Madam Chair, do you mean to recommend that to the Committee of the Whole hearing date, March 17th?

So my script says February 24th.

4th. Are you, I recommend that it be on the same day,

be sent without recommendation by land use and transportation for consideration

on the same date as the committee, the whole hearing. That sounds good. You're

the procedure guy. Thank you. On the

motion offered by the chair that the ordinance be sent without the recommendation of

land use and transportation for consideration on March 17th,

2026. Vice chair Chen. Chen I member

Mahmoud. Mahmoud aye. Chair Malgar aye. Malgar aye. Madam Chair, there are three ayes. Okay, that motion passes. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, do we have any more business before our committee? There is no further business. Okay, we're adjourned. Thank you.

We'll see you next time.